The Little Humpbacked Horse. Ershov P.

“Humpbacked” one of the most famous Russian poetic fairy tales, written by Peter Pavlovich Ershov almost two centuries ago. The work still does not lose its relevance. Original folklore, folk language, subtle irony, lightness and grace of the syllable gained the wide popularity and love of readers to this work. This is a fairy tale about how Ivan-Durak outwitted the greedy king, got a firebird, and then married the king-girl. And as his faithful friend, the hog-humpbacked horse, turned out to be more expensive than him all the wealth in the world. The fairy tale is not only funny, but also instructive.